What is Amazon Aurora?
Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. Amazon Aurora provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services.
Company Details
Need Assistance?
We're here to help you with understanding our reports and the data inside to help you make decisions.
Get AssistanceAmazon Aurora Ratings
Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Download the entire Product Scorecard
to access more information on Amazon Aurora.
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
90 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+94 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Amazon Aurora?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Reliable
- Acts with Integrity
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
Footprint
Negative
Neutral
Positive
Feature Ratings
Data Protection and Security
High Availability
Database Management
Data Backup
Data Management
Systems Performance Management
Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment
Distributed Processing
Operations Management
Data Virtualization
Analytics and Reporting
Vendor Capability Ratings
Quality of Features
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Vendor Support
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Amazon Aurora Reviews
Simran T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2025
Amazon Aurora SQL Based Database provided by AWS
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Aurora from other similar products?
Basically it has already deployed clusters for sql as well as we can connect with it in localhost for testing on deployed url so we can just directly install the database from it as well as not requiring the migration for each table to local to staging in it.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Best part is the deployed link as well as setup for deployment in aws service as well as connecting with multiple services
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing everything is fine and best for it
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will recommend them for whosever is considering for purchasing of sql database as required.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Lennon W.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2025
Reliable Managed Database Automated Environments
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Aurora from other similar products?
Aurora combines managed database convenience with strong performance. It feels closer to running a high end database without the usual operational overhead.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The reliability. Automated backups, replication, and scaling work smoothly, which fits well into infrastructure as code and hands-off operations.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost tracking can be tricky. Without careful monitoring, usage based pricing can grow faster than expected in automated setups.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Design automation around scaling and failover early. Aurora works best when monitoring, alerts, and recovery are part of the initial setup.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Nijat I.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2025
Scalable, fast and stable
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Aurora from other similar products?
Amazon Aurora is quite prominent in offering a managed database service that is highly scalable and resilient as compared to several traditional ones. Because it is closely integrated with the AWS ecosystem, you can have automated backups, failovers, and scaling with very little manual setup. Its method of isolating storage from compute allows you to deal with a ramp-up of load with less work. In comparison with self-managed databases, it is simply much more difficult to work at scale.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite part is the very small amount of typical maintenance that the system is asking for. Most of the things like backups, patching, and failover are done automatically, so it is possible to have a lot of time free. Even if there is a sudden increase of traffic, the performance remains very stable. Without giving a lot of attention, it is still trustworthy.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The thing that I dislike most about this is the cost, in particular, if you decide to scale up or run multiple instances across different regions. There are some advanced configuration options where you feel a little restricted as compared to self-managed databases. Also, troubleshooting complex performance issues can be a bit of a challenge if you do not want to use additional AWS tools. In general, it has a lot of power but the price can go up very fast.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would suggest that you figure out your work and costs pretty thoroughly before going all in, as money can be spent very quickly. Ensure that your team is proficient in the AWS environment because most of the advanced features require it. It is quite necessary to carry out the performance test under the real load to know whether Aurora can serve your needs or not. In case of enterprises that are on AWS already, it generally is a safe and seamless option.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity